This is a blog about interacting systems and how they behave: systems thinking construed broadly. Financial markets and economics; politics; and occasionally physical systems are discussed, with an attempt at focusing on how the rules of the game determine the strategies of participants and the possible outcomes.

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Entrepreneurship

From Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, via the LRB blog.

These individuals were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review by some bright young person from the London Review of Books but by a lack of custom and a prompt foreclosure.

3 Comments:

I like it too. In fact, I like it so much that I'm considering writing a series of business plans in sub-genre style. The Horror business plan could be fun (but not necessarily popular); the Romance one light, unfulfilling and with a predictable ending, and so on...